{"id":252914,"date":"2022-07-25T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=252914"},"modified":"2022-07-25T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T10:26:27","slug":"we-have-everything-under-control-ghs-assures-public-over-monkeypox-marburg-virus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/general-news\/we-have-everything-under-control-ghs-assures-public-over-monkeypox-marburg-virus-outbreak\/2022\/","title":{"rendered":"We have everything under control &#8211; GHS assures public over Monkeypox, Marburg virus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghs.gov.gh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana Health Service<\/a>, GHS, says the country&#8217;s current Public Health system is strained with several public health emergencies. These include Covid-19, Monkeypox, Marburg, Measles, Yellow Fever among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the Monkey pox disease, 50 percent of cases, according to the Service, are in the capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The GHS said the risk of widespread Monkey pox cases exists but does not pose a major threat. It said the \u2018Marburg virus\u2019 spread is also prevalent but very low.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the challenges these diseases pose, the Service says it has everything under control as various containment measures and national response plan are in place to avert any widespread outbreak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Driector General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Kumah Aboagye also gave the latest on Ghana&#8217;s Covid situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the current wave of COVID-19 infections has seen a downward trend in the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">COVID-19 cases among international arrivals are also very low.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/category\/news\/health\/\">CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON HEALTH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Health Service, GHS, says the country&#8217;s current Public Health system is strained with several public health emergencies. These include Covid-19, Monkeypox, Marburg, Measles, Yellow Fever among others. For the Monkey pox disease, 50 percent of cases, according to the Service, are in the capital. The GHS said the risk of widespread Monkey pox [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[8330,6769],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}